Zonisamide is an antiepileptic drug that is structurally different from other antiepileptic agents. Its long half-life, once-daily dosing, lack of induction of hepatic enzymes, and broad spectrum of action makes it a suitable candidate for monotherapy. It has been approved as monotherapy for partial onset epilepsy in Japan and South Korea for more than a decade, and was recently approved as mon...

A patient presenting with severe malaria, hyperparasitaemia, received 7-day artesunate monotherapy. recrudescence was detected and attributed to monotherapy a polyclonal infection without Kelch 13 gene mutation. second treatment artesunate, then quinine, followed by artemether-lumefantrine, successful.

Combination therapy with mexiletine and quinidine has been shown to be more effective than either agent alone. The ability of mexiletine monotherapy, quinidine monotherapy and mexiletine-quinidine combination therapy to suppress inducible sustained ventricular tachycardia was related to drug-induced changes in ventricular refractoriness, conduction times and monophasic action potential duration...

OBJECTIVES We analyzed the efficacy of additional antiandrogens as second- and third-line treatments after the failure of initial androgen deprivation monotherapy. METHODS This retrospective study included 53 patients with advanced prostate cancer initially treated with androgen deprivation monotherapy alone. An antiandrogen was added to androgen deprivation monotherapy as the second-line tre...

BACKGROUND In asthma, it is recommended that long-acting β2-agonists (LABAs) not be used as monotherapy, but, be used with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) to minimize the risk of serious adverse events. OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that if clinical recommendations were followed, LABA monotherapy would not occur in children and would only occur in COPD, where it is not contraindicated. MET...

OBJECTIVE To determine changes of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of patients on monotherapy with lopinavir/ritonavir. DESIGN The Monotherapy Switzerland/Thailand study (MOST) trial compared monotherapy with ritonavir-boosted lopinavir with continued therapy. The trial was prematurely stopped due to virological failure in six patients on monotherapy. It, thus, offers a unique opportunity...

BACKGROUND This study characterized a cohort of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients on maintenance bronchodilator monotherapy for ≥6 months to establish their disease burden, measured by health care utilization. METHODS Data were extracted from the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink and linked to Hospital Episode Statistics. The monotherapy period spanned the first presc...

BACKGROUND Clinical trials of PI monotherapy indicate that most participants maintain viral suppression and emergent protease resistance is rare. However, outcomes among patients receiving PI monotherapy for clinical reasons, such as toxicity or adherence issues, are less well studied. METHODS An observational study of patients attending an HIV treatment centre in London, UK, who had received...

PURPOSE To compare intravitreal bevacizumab monotherapy with intravitreal dexamethasone delayed delivery system monotherapy for persistent diabetic macular edema. METHODS Single-center, randomized, subject-masked study of eyes with persistent diabetic macular edema, defined as central subfield thickness (CST) >340 μm despite ≥3 anti-vascular endothelial growth factors injections within 5 mont...